Release 2020f - 2020-12-29 00:17:46 -0800
No changes to tzdata, just to a part of the build procedure
not used on NetBSD
Release 2020e - 2020-12-22 15:14:34 -0800
Volgograd switched to Moscow time on 2020-12-27 at 02:00.
Correct many pre-1986 transitions, fixing entries originally
derived from Shanks. The fixes include changes to:
Australia, Bahamas, Bermuda, Belize, Ghana, Israel and Palestine,
Kenya and adjacent, Nigeria and adjacent, Seychelles, Vanuatu
Australia/Currie has been moved to the 'backward' file and its
corrected data moved to the 'backzone' file.
To better match legislation in Turks and Caicos, the 2015 shift to
year-round observance of -04 is now modeled as AST throughout before
returning to Eastern Time with US DST in 2018, rather than as
maintaining EDT until 2015-11-01.
Summary of changes in tzdata2020b (2020-10-06 18:35:04 -0700):
Revised predictions for Morocco's changes starting in 2023.
Canada's Yukon changes to -07 on 2020-11-01, not 2020-03-08.
Macquarie Island has stayed in sync with Tasmania since 2011.
Casey, Antarctica is at +08 in winter and +11 in summer.
Summary of changes in tzdata2020a (2020-04-23 16:03:47 -0700):
Morocco resumes summer time on 2020-05-31, not 2020-05-24.
Canada's Yukon advanced to -07 year-round on 2020-03-08 (summer time
will not end this year)..
America/Nuuk renamed from America/Godthab (both names now exist).
Summary of changes in tzdata2019c (2019-09-11 08:59:48 -0700):
Fiji observes DST from 2019-11-10 to 2020-01-12
Norfolk Island starts observing Australian-style DST
Plus historic corrections to time in Turkey (1940-85)
South Korea (1948-51) Detroit (US) (1967-8), Perry County
(Indiana, US) (pre 1970) Edmonton (CA) (1967, 1969)
Vancouver (CA) (1946), Vienna (AT) (1946), Kaliningrad (1945-6).
Louisville (US) (1946-50). Brussles (BE) (1892).
Hong Kong Winter Time (1941) now listed as being "DST".
Summary of changes in tzdata2019b (2019-07-01 00:09:53 -0700):
Brazil no longer observes DST
Predictions for Morocco extended to 2087.
Panestine (March 2019) time zone change date corrected
(and guesses for future transitions revised).
Historic updates: Honk Kong (1941 - 1947), Italy (1866).
Release 20198 - 2019-03-25 22:01:33 -0700
Briefly:
Palestine summer time starts on 2019-03-30 instead of 2019-03-23.
Metlakatla switched back to rejoin Alaska Time on 2019-01-20 at 02:00.
Israel observed summer time in 1980 (08-02/09-13) and 1984 (05-05/08-25).
Etc/UCT is now a backward-compatibility link to Etc/UTC, instead
of being a separate zone that generates the abbreviation "UCT".
Summary of changes in tzdata2018i (2018-12-30 11:05:43 -0800):
Due to a change in government, Sao Tome and Principe switches back
from +01 to +00 on 2019-01-01 at 02:00.
Summary of changes in tzdata2018h (2018-12-23 17:59:32 -0800):
Qyzylorda (aka Kyzylorda) oblast in Kazakhstan moved from +06 to
+05 on 2018-12-21. This is a zone split as Qostanay (aka
Kostanay) did not switch, so create a zone Asia/Qostanay.
Metlakatla, Alaska observes PST this winter only.
Add predictions for Iran from 2038 through 2090.
Changes to some old timestamps for Nauru (1979) Guam (1959-77),
Hong Kong (1904, 1941, 1945, 1952) (others in Pacific during WWII)
Volgograd moves from +03 to +04 on 2018-10-28.
Fiji ends DST 2019-01-13, not 2019-01-20.
Most of Chile changes DST dates, effective 2019-04-06.
Plus corrections to North Korea's 2018-05-05 and China's April 1988
updates (getting the actual time/date of the transition correct)
Corrections for Macau pre 1992, Japan in late 1940's - early 1950's,
and China (Shanghai) 1940's. The Phillipines get their timezone
name abbreviations back.
Summary of changes in tzdata2018e (2018-05-01 23:42:51 -0700):
News for the tz database
Release 2018e - 2018-05-01 23:42:51 -0700
North Korea switches back to +09 on 2018-05-05 (tomorrow!)
Summary of changes in tzdata2018d (2018-03-22 07:05:46 -0700):
In 2018, Palestine starts DST on March 24 (today!), not March 31
Casey Station in Antarctica changed from +11 to +08 on 2018-03-11
at 04:00.
Various adjustments to some historical conversions (several for
Uruguay (1920 .. 1990), one fpr Enderbury and Kiritimati (1994/5),
one for Portugal and colonies (1912) and Jamaica and Turks & Caicos
(pre 1913)).
Summary of changes in tzdata2018d (2018-03-22 07:05:46 -0700):
In 2018, Palestine starts DST on March 24 (today!), not March 31
Casey Station in Antarctica changed from +11 to +08 on 2018-03-11
at 04:00.
Various adjustments to some historical conversions (several for
Uruguay (1920 .. 1990), one fpr Enderbury and Kiritimati (1994/5),
one for Portugal and colonies (1912) and Jamaica and Turks & Caicos
(pre 1913)).
Summary of changes in tzdata2018c (2018-01-22 23:00:44 -0800):
Summary of changes in tzdata2018b (2018-01-17 23:24:48 -0800):
Summary of changes in tzdata2018a (2018-01-12 22:29:21 -0800):
2018a and 2018b were (kind of) released, but never announced.
Some "issues" were found with them that caused the relatively
quick updates...
The updates are from the previous version (2017c) to the
current one (2018c) - that 2018a & 2018b intervened is best
forgotten... (changes in 2018a that were corrected (2018b) or
reverted (2018c) are not mentioned).
Briefly:
Sao Tome and Principe (An island nation off west coast of Equatorial Africa)
switched from +00 to +01.
Brazil's DST will now start on November's first Sunday.
Use Debian-style installation locations, instead of 4.3BSD-style.
(this does not affect NetBSD, we do not use the tzdata Makefile)
Changes to past and future time stamps
Sao Tome and Principe switched from +00 to +01 on 2018-01-01 at
01:00. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen and Michael Deckers.)
Changes to future time stamps
Starting in 2018 southern Brazil will begin DST on November's
first Sunday instead of October's third Sunday. (Thanks to
Steffen Thorsen.)
Changes to past time stamps
Japanese DST transitions (1948-1951) were Sundays at 00:00, not
Saturdays or Sundays at 02:00. (Thanks to Takayuki Nikai.)
A discrepancy of 4 s in timestamps before 1931 in South Sudan has
been corrected. The 'backzone' and 'zone.tab' files did not agree
with the 'africa' and 'zone1970.tab' files. (Problem reported by
Michael Deckers.)
The abbreviation invented for Bolivia Summer Time (1931-2) is now
BST instead of BOST, to be more consistent with the convention
used for Latvian Summer Time (1918-9) and for British Summer Time.
Northern Cyprus switches from +03 to +02/+03 on 2017-10-29.
Fiji ends DST 2018-01-14, not 2018-01-21.
Namibia switches from +01/+02 to +02 on 2018-04-01.
Sudan switches from +03 to +02 on 2017-11-01.
Tonga likely switches from +13/+14 to +13 on 2017-11-05.
Turks & Caicos switches from -04 to -05/-04 on 2018-11-04.
Some corrections to (mostly ancient) historical data.
Summary of changes in tzdata2017b (2017-03-17 07:30:38 -0700):
Haiti resumed observance of DST in 2017 (on Mar 12)
Liberia changed from -004430 to +00 on 1972-01-07, not 1972-05-01.
Use "MMT" to abbreviate Liberia's time zone before 1972,
as "-004430" (tzdata2016a) is one byte over the POSIX limit.
Summary of changes in tzdata2017a (2017-02-28 00:05:36 -0800):
Briefly: Southern Chile moves from -04/-03 to -03, and Mongolia
discontinues DST.
Changes to future time stamps
Mongolia no longer observes DST.
Chile's Region of Magallanes moves from -04/-03 to -03 year-round.
Changes to past time stamps
Fix many entries for historical time stamps for Europe/Madrid
before 1979, to agree with tables compiled by Pere Planesas of the
National Astronomical Observatory of Spain. As a side effect,
this changes some time stamps for Africa/Ceuta before 1929, which
are probably guesswork anyway.
Ecuador observed DST from 1992-11-28 to 1993-02-05.
Asia/Atyrau and Asia/Oral were at +03 (not +04) before 1930-06-21.
Changes to past and future time zone abbreviations
Switch to numeric time zone abbreviations for South America, as
part of the ongoing project of removing invented abbreviations.
For Alaska time from 1900 through 1967, instead of "CAT" use the
abbreviation "AST", the abbreviation commonly used at the time
(Atlantic Standard Time had not been standardized yet). Use "AWT"
and "APT" instead of the invented abbreviations "CAWT" and "CAPT".
Use "CST" and "CDT" instead of invented abbreviations for Macau
before 1999 and Taiwan before 1938, and use "JST" instead of the
invented abbreviation "JCST" for Japan and Korea before 1938.
Change to database entry category
Move the Pacific/Johnston link from 'australasia' to 'backward',
since Johnston is now uninhabited.
Summary of changes in tzdata2016j (2016-11-22 23:17:13 -0800):
Saratov, Russia switches from +03 to +04 on 2016-12-04 at 02:00.
This creates a new zone Europe/Saratov.
New zone Asia/Atyrau for Atyrau Region, Kazakhstan, is like
Asia/Aqtau except it switched from +04/+05 to +05/+06 in spring
1999, not fall 1994.
Asia/Gaza and Asia/Hebron now use "EEST", not "EET", to denote
summer time before 1948. The old use of "EET" was a typo.
(one which used a different key for the signature of the data file...)
Allow either key to work. Also update the name of the sets list
file to match modern reality (only affects instructions issued to user.)
I skipped committing these changes until it had been used a few times
to verify that it actually works properly... it seems to.
Summary of changes in tzdata2016i (2016-11-01 23:19:52 -0700):
Cyprus split into two time zones on 2016-10-30 (new zone is
Asia/Famagusta and is UTC+3 year round). Tonga reintroduces
summer time on 2016-11-06 (assumed for now to be aligned with Fiji).
This year's summer time switch (from +08 to +11) for Antarctica/Casey
occurred 2016-10-22.
Also (minor) adjustments to some historic data for Italy (most
recent applies to time of day of switch out of summer time in period
1967-1970 & 1972-1974, other changes relate to 1910's and 1940's.)
Summary of changes in tzdata2016h (2016-10-19 23:17:57 -0700):
Asia/Gaza and Asia/Hebron end of summer time for 2016 is
2016-10-29 at 01:00 rather than 2016-10-21 at 00:00 (which
is within hours after this update). Guess that future
end dates will be the last Sat of October.
Corrected some historic time (and one date) transition
times for Turkey (all 1990 or before.)
Switch Sri-Lanka to use numeric abbreviation for time zone
as the tzdata invented one is not correct, and the correct
one seems not to be widely used.
Summary of changes in tzdata2016g (2016-09-13 08:56:38 -0700):
Timezone switch in Turkey (summer time becomes standard time)
Transition time corrections for historic timestamps in
America/Los_Angeles
zones using USSR rules in early 20th century
Some (more) time zone abbreviations converted to numeric form
Asia/Rangoon becomes Asia/Yangon (with backward compat link)
Summary of changes in tzdata2016g (2016-09-13 08:56:38 -0700):
Timezone switch in Turkey (summer time becomes standard time)
Transition time corrections for historic timestamps in
America/Los_Angeles
zones using USSR rules in early 20th century
Some (more) time zone abbreviations converted to numeric form
Asia/Rangoon becomes Asia/Yangon (with backward compat link)
